Lord Buckley, eh? Well that's a new one on me, so thanks for that, Don - a revelation! And always good to see Groucho. In fact, being ill today (and home alone - this being one of my wife's occasional working weekends) perhaps I'll line up a few old Marx Brothers films, beginning, of course, with The Cocoanuts - or should I leave that for last? It being my all-time favourite movie...

But what's this I see? BBC2 - 2.10pm - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - now there's one I haven't seen for a while. Of course what I really want to see right now is You'll Find Out, the 1940 Kay Kyser horror-spoof featuring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre - and some of creepiest vocal effects in the history of cinema besides...